Signal Versus Noise: Why Academic Blogging Matters: A Structural Argument. SAA 2011 An excellent paper and accompanying presentationon the importance of academic blogging within the new media ecology
Tag: blogging
I’m feeling a little like a former blogger these days. I know blogging is good for me and I want to blog, but it seems that I let everything else come before blogging. Maybe it wouldn’t be such a big…
As I reconstruct my dissertation–rewriting, revising, conducting a new research study–I’ve been considering many of the questions that reappear in my personal research journal. Since my research isn’t just my research, I can’t really make my research reflections fully public.…
I haven’t had much time to blog lately because of all of my dissertation work. For a while I found that the blogging was helping my writing process, but then I got a little freaked out about the possibility that…
And when I say fight, I mean research and write. For me, fighting (in the sense of working to accomplish something) is particular to who I am–a scholar, a writer, a teacher. As many of you know (or will discover…
I just had a discussion with my dissertation committee about issues concerning personal blogs and how we define knowledge. We also discussed the debates regarding whether or not community can be established online, followed by a brief discussion of micro-blogging…
In the Fall of 2006 I received an email, filtered down through the chain of departmental command, regarding my course website from the previous Spring. The email regarded a comment exchange between two students from my Technical Writing class. Now…
Another post from my former New Media class. This one inspired my post on gender and documentation. So many blogs, so many drupal sites, so little time. Ahem, do you ever have those moments when you realize that you’ve forgotten…
I feel the need to remind myself why I blog (or, at least, why I should blog). I’m feeling a little listy, so I’m going to do this in bullet point format. why I blog First, and perhaps most importantly,…
As I struggle to find the sample set (representative trauma blogs) for my dissertation, I have been able to separate the bloggers into three categories based on their rhetorical strategies for dealing with trauma. One set of trauma bloggers discuss…